Monthly Archives: November 2012

By using the AWS Storage Gateway the S3 Simple Storage Service can be directly accesed by the servers and applications as a local attached storage device. This means that the Gateway can make the S3 buckets to appear just like … Continue reading →

The 40th edition of the twice-yearly TOP500 List of the world’s top supercomputers was released yesterday (Nov. 12, 2012). Titan, a Cray XK7 system installed at Oak Ridge, achieved 17.59 Petaflop/s (quadrillions of calculations per second) on the Linpack benchmark. … Continue reading →

The zBox4 is the latest upgrade to the zBox supercomputer, located in the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. The zBox features a custom rack design that houses 3072 2.2GHz Intel Xeon cores and over 12TB … Continue reading →

This week NetApp announced two new New Cluster- and Flash-Enabled midrange storage arrays, the FAS3220 and FAS3250. These models are part of a complete product refresh that has occurred over the past 2 years, beginning with a FAS6200 redesign in … Continue reading →

On October 29, 2012, AMD announced it will design 64-bit ARM® technology-based processors in addition to its x86 processors and it’s first ARM-based server CPU is targeted for production in 2014. The new processors are targeted for multiple markets, starting … Continue reading →